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Pro-voting demonstrators protested U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche’s appearance Monday near where crucial voting processes are playing out in Mississippi’s closely watched midterm election.
With Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race still too close to call, voters, grassroots pro-voting groups and election workers across the state told Democracy Docket they are deeply frustrated and concerned with the large number of voters flagged as inactive this election.
The data shows how Trump’s map-rigging scheme backfired spectacularly, motivating Democratic voters to turn out in volumes.
A few months ago, Mississippi’s secretary of state quietly deleted state regulations that let mail voters fix minor issues with their ballots after casting them, putting those votes at risk this year.
Democrat Scott Colom, who holds a razor-thin lead in Mississippi’s still-undecided U.S. Senate race, called for sweeping reforms to expand voting access and curb partisan gerrymandering in an interview with Democracy Docket.
It has been 156 years since the nation elected its first Black United States senator. He represented Mississippi. The state may soon see its second Black senator in history, after voters flocked to the polls in defiance of the state’s restrictive voting system and in the throes of the greater South’s redistricting campaign.
Mississippi’s Senate race is nail-bitingly close — and the legal and political battle over the count has already kicked off.
Mississippi voter turnout skyrocketed this year — bringing Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom close to an unlikely win — despite perhaps the nation’s most restrictive voting system.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom accused Republicans of seeking to violate Mississippi voters’ rights with new demands on outstanding ballots in the state.
Mississippi’s Senate race is nail-bitingly close — and the legal and political battle over the count has already kicked off.